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Thomas L. Tidwell was the 17th Chief of the United States Forest Service (USFS) of the Department of Agriculture, and was appointed on July 17, 2009, succeeding Gail Kimbell. He was succeeded by Tony Tooke , who was sworn in September 1, 2017.
The Forest Fire Lookout Association is training volunteers to serve as forest fire lookouts. They began staffing the tower in August 2019. Their goal is to staff the tower seven days per week from May through November. [4] The lookout is accessible from Carmel Valley Road, and then south on Forest Route 18S02/Tassajara Road 9 miles (14 km ...
Lassen forest officials proposed to conduct logging on 3,500 acres (1,400 ha) southwest of Lake Almanor. The forest's plan was appealed by several environmental groups, including the Sierra Club, and the appeal was upheld in October 2001 by the Forest Service regional forester for the Pacific Southwest Region over the plan's unproven benefits ...
The Unity Ranger District was an administrative subdivision of the Whitman National Forest, with responsibility for 194,000 acres (790 km 2) of forest land in the Blue Mountains of northeastern Oregon. After the Forest Service reorganization in 1954, the Unity Ranger District became part of the much larger Wallowa-Whitman National Forest. [2] [3]
Washington State Fire Training Academy seen from slopes of Mailbox Peak. The fire training academy is on a 51-acre (21 ha) campus that consists of four classrooms, a two-story dormitory with 20 rooms, and training areas. [30] The largest training area is a six-story "burn building" that is used for search and rescue training. [32]
Steve Guttenberg hit the ground running to help people impacted by the fires in Pacific Palisades — and he was almost unrecognizable. The flames first began around 10:30 a.m. local time on ...
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The 2012 Chips Fire was a large wildfire in California's Plumas County.After igniting on July 29, the fire burned for 33 days and spread to 75,431 acres (30,526 hectares), or more than 118 square miles (310 square kilometres), before it was fully contained on August 31.